Breaking Through to Hell Road

The next day, the streets and alleys were littered with corpses.

Tang San looked at some of the half-human, half-beast corpses and fell into deep thought. These people had no consciousness, only instinctive bestiality.

It wasn't just these; Ling Chen had also cleared out even stranger creatures. Their hands had transformed into weapons, and they appeared to be in the same state as the half-human, half-beast ones, possessing only instinctive bestiality.

"Do you recognize these guys?"

Ling Chen severed the head of a half-human, half-lizard corpse with a single stroke of his sword and kicked it in front of Tang San.

"Since I entered Slaughter City, I have never seen them before..."

Tang San replied only after pondering for a moment.

Ling Chen wasn't surprised; they usually left as soon as they killed someone, so why would they care about the state of the corpses? It was only because Ling Chen was a fanatic for looting corpses that he had discovered such strange existences.

"However, judging by the state of these monsters, it seems they were transformed from wanderers eroded by killing intent."

Ling Chen nodded; he agreed with this deduction.

"That may be so, but we have no concrete evidence to prove it. Still, since we have decided to slaughter the city, it is better to clear these monsters out while we are at it."

Hearing this, Tang San simply acted in silence, saying nothing more.

In no time at all, everyone in one sector of the inner city had been slaughtered. Ling Chen finished looting the corpses and, without lingering, headed toward the next sector.

It was at this moment that a group of people rushed out from all directions.

"Brothers! Hack him to death!"

Those people brandished their Martial Souls one after another, charging toward Ling Chen. This time, Ling Chen had no narrow space to dodge and was surrounded tightly.

Ling Chen made a rough estimate: there were nearly five hundred people, and there were even some experts hiding in the shadows that Ling Chen hadn't spotted.

"Just in time!"

To say that the current Ling Chen could handle a mob of hundreds was clearly impossible. But if he wanted to carve a bloody path out, that was quite easy.

One should not underestimate the Green Steel Sword, which Ling Chen had reinforced three times recently. In a situation where Soul Power Level suppression could not be formed, the sharp and heavy Green Steel Sword would sever anything that blocked its path.

Ling Chen turned and charged toward the Hell Slaughter Arena. In the blink of an eye, Ling Chen was instantly covered by the flashing blades and shadows, sustaining numerous wounds.

Ling Chen swung the Green Steel Sword frantically, colliding with the dazzling array of blades and shadows. With no time to care about his lacerated flesh, Ling Chen cut through both men and weapons alike, saving time on entanglement as he desperately carved out a bloody path.

Hearing the commotion, Tang San immediately rushed over to provide support. With an inside-out assault, the two of them completely broke a gap through the encirclement, forcibly carving a bloody path leading straight to the Hell Slaughter Arena.

For some reason, Ling Chen was not in a hurry to escape the encirclement, instead deliberately trampling on the corpses of those people.

Ever since Ling Chen discovered yesterday that touching those corpses with his feet could also strip away their Martial Soul Origin, he no longer needed to wait for the battle to end to make contact, allowing him to obtain the Martial Soul Origin to the greatest extent.

Seeing that it was about enough, Ling Chen finally began to fight while retreating, heading toward the Hell Slaughter Arena.

"Don't let that brat run! If he enters the Hell Slaughter Arena, it won't be so easy to kill him afterward!"

However, Tang San would not give them a chance to catch up to Ling Chen. He stayed behind to cover the retreat, and it was impossible for anyone to break through his Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.

After Tang San struck nearly 108 hammers, he left without the slightest hesitation, withdrawing toward the Hell Slaughter Arena.

But when he arrived there, the King of Slaughter blocked his path.

"You have turned my Slaughter City upside down! You truly do not hold this King in your eyes!"

Tang San's expression was grim, yet he let out a cold snort.

"Isn't this the rule you set? You only stipulated that killing is forbidden in the outer city. As for the inner city, even if we slaughter it clean, nothing will happen!"

"Insolent!"

The King of Slaughter roared, and a massive wave of killing intent surged from his body, suppressing Tang San.

Tang San was not afraid in the slightest; having mastered the Hundred Interpretations of Hidden Weapons, he was not without the ability to kill the King of Slaughter.

"Enough. Since you feel we are a nuisance, why not send us away? Wouldn't that be a perfect resolution for you?"

Ling Chen and Hu Liena walked out from behind Tang San. In the current situation, it seemed that things had already slipped out of the King of Slaughter's control.

"Ridiculous! I can just kill you all; why go through such roundabout ways?"

The King of Slaughter smiled wickedly; he had never held Ling Chen and the others in high regard.

"Interesting. We were able to slaughter a hundred people while under siege by a thousand, yet your Hell Slaughter Arena requires ten people to even start a match."

"Setting that aside, some people were unwilling to fight us in the Hell Slaughter Arena and only wanted to ambush us in the inner city, yet you protected them. I think the ridiculous one is you!"

Ling Chen looked at the King of Slaughter with a calm expression, as if he were not afraid of the King of Slaughter attacking him at all.

The King of Slaughter was rendered speechless for a moment; he was indeed in the wrong on this matter.

"A sharp-tongued brat, aren't you afraid that I..."

Before the King of Slaughter could finish, Ling Chen interrupted him.

"As the King of Slaughter, I believe you would not lower yourself to bicker with us juniors!"

Ling Chen did not intend to offend the King of Slaughter to the point of no return; giving him a step down was also a way of giving him face.

Upon hearing this, the King of Slaughter burst into hearty laughter.

"Hahahaha! Good! At your age, you are indeed a peerless genius. I shall consider you to have passed this Hell Slaughter Arena. From here on, you only need to pass through the Hell Road to leave this place!"

Ling Chen cupped his hands in thanks, "Then many thanks to the King of Slaughter for granting this!"

Ling Chen naturally knew that Tang San and Hu Liena had two Gods of Slaughter backing them, so the King of Slaughter dared not move against them easily, but he could certainly move against him.

He might as well go with the flow; this way, he wouldn't have to find a way to fight for a hundred consecutive victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena.

Next, it was time to bravely venture through the Hell Road.

Ling Chen recalled the plot of the Hell Road from the original work, specifically the Three-Headed Bat King and the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent.

These were not the key; rather, it was the poisonous miasma and the blood-colored mist that would force them to face their own inner demons, leading them to kill one another.

Ling Chen chose to cooperate with Tang San naturally because his Purple Demon Eye could see through the illusions and successfully lead them out.

He just didn't know if adding one more person would change the outcome.

Stepping onto the Hell Road, before them lay a narrow bridge only half a foot wide that stretched into the distance, flanked by a churning sea of magma and blood. The intense heat scorched their skin, and the blood-colored miasma in the air stirred the killing intent deep within their hearts.

"Is this the Hell Road?"

Ling Chen curiously surveyed everything around him, while Tang San discovered the crux of the problem and released his Blue Silver Domain.